A PREGNANT woman was horrified after finding a maggot wriggling out of an apple she was eating at her Coventry home.

While I’m a Celebrity stars might be used to chomping on such “delicacies” in the Australian jungle, Vanessa Ryan was sickened to find the creature in the fruit.

The 25-year-old, who is about to give birth, had taken two bites of the apple, which was bought in a supermarket, when she realised there was a maggot inside.

She threw the apple onto the mantelpiece and watched in horror as the maggot slithered onto the wall at her home in Dallington Avenue, Coundon.

She then ran to the bathroom and was sick. Her husband Ciaran, 25, had bought the pack of apples from the Morrisons store, in Holyhead Road, for their five-year-old daughter Jessica.

Vanessa, who works as a customer services adviser for Coventry Building Society, said: “I’m surprised I didn’t go into labour after that. It was disgusting. I fancied an apple – it looked fine.

“I took the first bite and ate it but when I took the second bite the whole apple fell apart in my hand and this maggot was staring back at me.

“I spat out the piece of apple I’d eaten and threw the apple on to the mantelpiece. It made me sick – it was the last thing I wanted being pregnant. I’ve already gone through morning sickness.

“It’s a good job it wasn’t my daughter who ate it. She had been eating the apples for her lunch all week. She loves fruit and this would have put her off apples for good. The whole experience was just vile.

“Everything I eat now I pull apart to make sure there is nothing inside. I’m supposed to eat small amounts and often but this has put me off my food.

“I’m hungry but I can’t eat as much as I used to. It’s put me off apples – it will take a long time to go back to them again. I’ve always had my five-a-day but I’ve taken apples out of that now. We won’t be going back to Morrisons for fresh food that’s for sure.”

Vanessa has taken the apple back to the Morrisons for the store’s technical team to investigate further. The team will aim to trace the supplier and identify the type of maggot.

Vanessa said: “We’ve given Morrisons the photos we took of the apple and the maggot crawling up the wall. I just hope it doesn’t happen again to someone else.”

Morrisons have apologised and bosses said they will offer a refund and gift vouchers as a goodwill gesture.